Diagnostic & Treatment Analysis

26. Infectious Diseases

Cholera

Sulphur is the best preventative tr eatment during a cholera epidemic.

Sulphur 200 every day for two days and then twice a week saves one

from contracting cholera. As soon as the symptoms of cholera appear,

Camphor in a low potency can cure cholera altogether. Once the

symptoms have started, especially the silent type of cholera,

associated with large exuberant watery stools, causing severe

dehydration and weakness leading to coldness of the body, can best be

treated with Camphor. The most pr ominent indication for Camphor is

nausea and vomiting, more so than diarrhoea.

Cuprum is also an extremely effec tive treatment of cholera especially

the kind associated with severe abdominal colic and severe cramps in

the hands and the feet, starting in the fingers and toes and then spreads

upwards. This type of cholera is best treated with Cuprum. In the

diarrhoea of Cuprum, the stools ar e scanty, frequent and associated

with severe griping. The cholera associated with exuberant amounts

of stools and severe cramps in the calves will respond best to

Veratrum Album. The following remedies may also be of use:

Aethusa Podophyllum

Arsenicum Album Secale Cor

Carbo Veg

Abdominal Colic in Intestinal Infections

This may be associated with the tendency of nausea and vomiting due

to cholera or any other illness. It should be treated with the

combination of Croton 30, Ipecac 30, Carbo Veg 30, Baptisia 30.

Nausea and vomiting that get better with drinking cold water is

indicative of Cuprum. Cuprum is al so effective in the treatment of

mumps. Similarly, Cuprum is useful in the treatment of paralysis of a

limb caused by typhoid fever. The other possible remedies are:-

Antimonium Crudum Dioscorea

Argentum Nitricum Iris

Arsenicum Album Nux Vomica

Colchicum Pulsatilla

Colocynthis Sulphur

Malaria

Please refer to the detailed accounts of malaria under the chapters of

the following remedies. The reader may be directed to some other

related remedies and symptoms under the same chapters:

Aconite Ipecacuanha

Arnica Natrum Mur

Arsenic Natrum Sulph

Bryonia Nux Vomica

Cedron Psorinum

China Pulsatilla

Chininum Ars Rhus Tox

Eupatorium Tarentula

Gelsemium Tuberculinum

A careful study of these homoeopathic remedies will, God-willing,

enable the reader to control malaria fairly well.

Chicken Pox and Measles

By the time chicken pox or measles become visible, they may have

already done enough harm to the body. Silicea, Kali Phos and Ferrum

Phos help manifest the symptoms onto the skin. Allium Cepa as well

as Arsenic and Psorinum may al so be useful, depending upon the

situation i.e. symptoms and signs of the sickness. Necessary reference

has also been made under the following:

Antimonium Crudum Malandrinum

Antimonium Tart Merc Sol

Apis Pulsatilla

Calcarea Phos Sulphur

Euphrasia Variolinum

Kali Bichrom

Whooping Cough

In whooping cough, commonly used remedies are Drosera, Allium

Cepa and Arnica. Other useful remedies are:

Belladonna Ipecacuanha

Coccus Cacti Kali Carb

Cuprum Metallicum Senega

Hydrocyanic Acid Tarentula

Influenza

Sulphur and Pyrogenium have been found very useful in the treatment

of influenza fever. Besides them, Influenzinum, Bacillinum,

Diphtherinum, Oscillo Coccinum, Kali Phos, Ferrum Phos, Kali Mur,

Silicea and Calcarea Fluor should also be studied.

Arsenicum Album Eupatorium

Bryonia Gelsemium

Carbo Veg Natrum Sulph

Dulcamara Rhus Tox

Dysentery

Commonly used remedies are: Ipecac, Aconite, Kurchi, Dioscorea and

Colocynthis. More has been mentioned under the following headings:

Aloe Gelsemium

Arnica Mag Carb

Arsenic Album Merc Cor

Bufo Merc Sol

Cantharis Nux Vomica

Capsicum Phosphorus

Carbo Veg Rhus Tox

Carbolic Acid Sulphur

Colchicum

Plague

During an epidemic, when Mercury and Sulphur compounds are used,

the disease will surface to the skin, sp aring the glands and thus curing

the plague. The following may also be found useful:

Arsenicum Album Naja

Belladonna Phosphorus

Crotalus Horridus Pyrogenium

Hydrocyanic Acid Rhus Tox

Ignatia Tarentula Hispania

Lachesis

AIDS

In AIDS, Silicea CM, Psorinum, Syphilinum and Pyrogenium prove to

be very beneficial.

Meningitis

In addition to Natrum Sulph, Ge lsemium, Silicea and Apis, the

following should also be studied:

Aconitum Glonoine

Belladonna Helleborus

Bryonia Hyoscyamus

Calcarea Carb Mercurius

Cicuta Virosa Nux Vomica

Crotalus Horridus Opium

Cuprum Metallicum Zincum